Tag: Reykjavik Backpackers

If you read this blog at all you’re well aware that I recently returned from a week long trip to Iceland. It was an amazing experience, whose success I partially attribute to where we stayed: Reykjavik Backpacker’s hostel. There were a number of reasons why staying in a hostel rather than a hotel enhanced our

Iceland was an amazing vacation that I wouldn’t trade for anything. That being said, we were in Iceland for one short week and while I’m happy with everything we did, I could have easily spent another week or two (or 3, or a month) there exploring all it has to offer. Here’s my wish-list of

We woke up bright and early to make the most of our last day in Iceland. We were planning on heading to Keflavik to go to the Viking Museum there and then spend a good chunk of the day at the Blue Lagoon, arguably Iceland’s most famous attraction. Unfortunately the rain that had plagued our

Day six we saw the most of Iceland of any day on our trip. We rented a car and drove along the southern coast, on Route 1, or The Ring Road, which circumnavigates the entire island. Our final destination was Jökulsárlón, a glacial lagoon at the southeastern tip of the island. We had a bit of

Monday was another Arctic Adventures day: on the agenda: The Blue Lava Tour . We would be horseback riding in the morning and snorkeling in the afternoon. We woke up early and returned our rental car and, happy with our choice to rent a car the day before, we booked one for Tuesday and Wednesday

It’s worth noting that I woke up around 6:30 Saturday morning to use the bathroom. As I was exiting the hostel room, one of our dorm mates was coming in from his Friday night out. Reykjavik nightlife really is that intense. I’d experience this first hand soon enough. I figured I felt fine during my

If you read my Iceland itinerary , Friday was one of the two days we didn’t have already planned out. We’d decided while out on our Thursday night bar crawl that we’d wake up early \and catch an 8:20 bus to the Reykjavik suburbs in order to hike Mt. Esja. Our first night in Iceland was

Thursday Our Icelandic adventure began with an 11:40 red eye out of JKF on Wednesday night. The flight was approximately 4.5 hours long and we landed in the international airport in Keflavik around 8:40, an hour before schedule. I have to say, landing in Iceland was a little anticlimactic. I guess it was naïve to expect towering mountains, geysers, and hot